Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [vb infin] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in view of passages in Revelation like 7:3 which speak of ‘ sealing the servants of God in their fore-heads ’ , and Romans 4:11 which speaks of circumcision as ‘ the sign and seal of being in the right with God through faith ’ , it is not impossible that baptism may have been in the apostle 's mind when he spoke of this sealing with the Spirit . |
| 2 | Now to the house itself , one of the early observers gives us a clue when mentioning the house he writes of the fine Elizabethan chimneys still standing , these I believe are those which collapsed in 1973 after having previously been lowered owing to their dangerous condition , on the collapse of these some fine timber framing was discovered in the older parts of the house showing considerable blackening , and Mrs Lingham informed me that vestiges of a gallery were discovered , and it was suggested that this part of the building may have been of the hall type . |
| 3 | Ford 's money may have been in evidence , but Ford 's men were not . |
| 4 | So it 's a bit frightening when you think a pensioner 's money may have been in that account at thirteen fifty on a , on ten thousand invested , and now they 're down to seven hundred . |
| 5 | The Judge said the gang may have been in a state of panic , but the police were unarmed and it was miracle they were n't seriously injured . |
| 6 | Whatever Aachen may have been in the past , it has settled down now to being a prosperous commercial town with few pretensions . |
| 7 | In many circumstances the service to the University may have been over a period several times the 3 years of undergraduate study . |
| 8 | Welsh rulers , with whom Offa may have been at war and who possibly ruled in British territory subject to him , could have been among the kings of the Scots ( Irish ) who recognized the lordship of Charlemagne . |
| 9 | Police believe the Sierra may have been on its way to take part . |
| 10 | However successful these policies may have been in the fifties we have , I believe , convincing evidence that they have failed since the world-wide inflation which started with the mismanagement of the finances raised to pay for the Vietnam War . |
| 11 | She was only twenty when she was saddled with me , yet she never made me feel I was a drag , and heaven knows a kid sister must have been at times . ’ |
| 12 | To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars . |
| 13 | I 'm forty-eight this year , me mum must have been in there nearly fifty year . |
| 14 | Theo 's fears that his brother was on a self-destructive course must have been at least partly eased by this letter . |
| 15 | However , Honderich himself throws up difficulties with regard to his third point , in that Conservatism must have been at least partly responsible for the ‘ decent ’ society he found when he arrived in Britain thirty years ago . |
| 16 | The winner must have been beyond price . |
| 17 | CLEAR SIGNS that a doping ring may have been in operation emerged yesterday when the Jockey Club admitted that Surrey police are investigating the ‘ nobbling ’ of a horse at Yarmouth last August . |
| 18 | Although he had many substantial patrons , Evesham may have been in financial straits in the mid-1620s . |
| 19 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 20 | If so , Cnut 's attack on Ely may have been after 1016 . |
| 21 | Enthusiastic as some of the clergy may have been for war and seduced as they sometimes were by their own eloquence and propaganda for it , they were less eager about the burdens which it entailed . |
| 22 | WHOEVER judged the inflatable sumo wrestling bout at half-time must have been from the WBO . |
| 23 | All those lands have water , either acknowledged as lakes , or in winter pools throughout the poor , snipe-grass farmland ; how lovely the light must have been to his eyes . |
| 24 | Their home was in London and Fanshawe must have been in a hurry . |
| 25 | The bursting upon the scene of an organized working class carrying out industrial action on a substantial level , or not just working-class suffrage but , for the first time , mass political parties , and especially working-class parties must have been at least partly experienced as an eruption of contingency and chaos into a world of order . |
| 26 | ‘ We ca n't be absolutely sure of the sequence of events but the victim was hit from behind and fell against the door leading into the garage , so the killer must have been in the house . |
| 27 | That unedifying but intriguing little episode must have been round the Lab within minutes of its happening . |
| 28 | Her presence in the workhouse in itself seems an odd occurrence ; it was hardly as if she had no-one to turn to — any one of her brothers must have been in a position to help when help was needed . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's right , ’ he said , trying to think of why Hasan 's photograph might have been inside the locket . |
| 30 | In the study by Mattsson et al describing development of enterochromaffin like carcinoids in rats afer longterm hypergastrinaemia caused by partial corpectomy , the plasma gastrin concentration might have been above the minimal concentration necessary to give maximal trophic effect ( supramaximal concentration ) . |